Life is filled with colors. At different stages in our life, we have different preferences for colors. It is especially appropriate to use infinite colors to describe the complexity and ever-changing emotions of life. According to Io Weng Si’s description, the “blue” color represents her feelings of depression and dimness in the face of adversity. The “blue” color is not an expression confined on the surface level, but it also describes the state when the emotion goes to the dark abyss, after reflection and remorse, there is a faint light at the bottom, and the deep “blue” is slowly illuminated by a gleam, which is the color of warmth, forgiveness and deep reflection.
Io Weng Si has borrowed the poem “Recipe for Making the Color Blue” of the Portuguese poet Nuno Júdice as a blueprint. Looking for the concept of “blue” formula, she uses natural materials such as rice pulp and rice paper, taking the land of Macau as the outline, reorganizing it, creating and sketching these semi-abstract mood- oriented maps with emotions. In this process of creation, she said, that water, temperature and sunshine are especially important, as if the earth has grown rice to nourish the people.
The pulp is made of rice, its color is white, with a bit of turbidity, but is still not in a pure white state. It is a stage in her pursuit of spiritual purification. And rice paper is like the human heart and the body’s cell membrane, although fragile and transparent, it protects the core of life (nuclei). While reinterpreting these blueprints of mind, she is also in a process of re-considering the illusory ideas and thoughts, thus bringing out the light of wisdom.
When: August 8–September 13, 2019
Where: AFA Macau, Tak Chun Macau Art Garden,265 Avenida Dr. Rodrigo Rodrigues, Macau
Macau.
How much: Free admission
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